Selections from the Speeches and Writings of the Right Honourable Henry, Lord Brougham & Vaux, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain: With a Brief Memoir of His Lordship's Life |
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Page 55
... treat- ing such subjects can be pointed out to me , in which we shall be safe , allowing the argu- ment of my learned friend to be just , I will give up this case , and confess that the inten- tion of the Defendant was that which is im ...
... treat- ing such subjects can be pointed out to me , in which we shall be safe , allowing the argu- ment of my learned friend to be just , I will give up this case , and confess that the inten- tion of the Defendant was that which is im ...
Page 57
... treated his discussion , that has excited the present prosecution ? If he had treated his subject dully , coldly , stupidly , he might have gone on to the end of time ; he would never have heard a breath of censure , seen a line of in ...
... treated his discussion , that has excited the present prosecution ? If he had treated his subject dully , coldly , stupidly , he might have gone on to the end of time ; he would never have heard a breath of censure , seen a line of in ...
Page 58
... treat such subjects at all , or else you must do it coolly , allowing yourselves to glow by some scale , of which my learned friend is no doubt in possession ; you must keep to a line , which is so fine , that no eye but his can ...
... treat such subjects at all , or else you must do it coolly , allowing yourselves to glow by some scale , of which my learned friend is no doubt in possession ; you must keep to a line , which is so fine , that no eye but his can ...
Page 59
... treat of the tyrant's ambitious and oppressive policy - when they treat of the rigours of his military conscription , they must keep to the line which has been this day marked out in this Court . Should they go beyond that line - should ...
... treat of the tyrant's ambitious and oppressive policy - when they treat of the rigours of his military conscription , they must keep to the line which has been this day marked out in this Court . Should they go beyond that line - should ...
Page 60
... treat , in a nervous style , of the rigour of his conscription , could expect nothing but severe punishment . But happily , Gentlemen , things in this country are a little different . Our constitution is bottomed in law and in justice ...
... treat , in a nervous style , of the rigour of his conscription , could expect nothing but severe punishment . But happily , Gentlemen , things in this country are a little different . Our constitution is bottomed in law and in justice ...
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